Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: > We've narrowed it down to two systems that are being tested right now, > MogileFS and OpenStack. OpenStack has more built-in stuff to support > authentication. MogileFS is used in many systems that have an > authentication layer, but it seems you have to build more of it from > scratch. > > Authentication is really a nice-to-have for Commons or Wikipedia right > now. I anticipate it being useful for a handful of cases, which are both > more anticipated than actual right now: > - images uploaded but not published (a la UploadWizard) > - forum avatars (which can viewed by anyone, but can only be edited > by the user they belong to)
I don't see how FS authentication is useful there. All authentication would be performed by mediawiki, with a master credential such as $wgDBpassword. MediaWiki shouldn't need to send the media server a user password! (NB sysops should be able to remove goatses from forum avatars...) Authentication as understood by OpenStack is of little use for us now. Things like adding a uid column in mysql would be more useful than a native authentication for accessing the resource. > As for things like SVG translation, I'm going to say that's out of scope > and probably impractical. Our experience with the Upload Wizard > Licensing Tutorial shows that it's pretty rare to be able to simply plug > in new strings into an SVG and have an acceptable translation. It > usually needs some layout adjustment, and for RTL languages it needs > pretty radical changes. You can provide the same SVG changing just the legend box. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
